Acqua of the Back

[Holy shit, was A Certain Magical Index's later history this wild?]

[Too bad we probably won't get to see Railgun and the Queen in mourning clothes in this world.]

[It's still hard to say what's going on in this world.]

[I'm more concerned about what happened in Mikoto's earlier memories. What the hell was that?]

[So it really was one loop after another.]

[There are no parallel worlds in A Certain Magical Index, so it really might have been one experience after another.]

[Didn't you see it? In those memories, Railgun was pretty much like the original at first, but things got more and more wrong later on.]

[Did Railgun really start over thousands of times? Suddenly this reminds me of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, 233.]

In a sense, Mikoto had indeed gone through countless loops.

With the Ruler of Domination's abilities combined with her own power, she could accomplish something like that.

For the Ruler of Domination, every individual body was a separate existence.

By placing those individuals within the "Dominion Theater," she could put on a performance.

Thus, the core of every "Herrscher of Thousand"—or rather, "Herrscher of Ten Thousand"—could let Mikoto experience a brand-new "life."

And Mikoto had a full twenty thousand Imoutos. In other words, she could experience twenty thousand new lives.

Of course, that was not actually the case.

Whenever the plot required a new life to be arranged, Mikoto could simply act one out on the spot.

Whatever she needed, she had. That was the Dominion Theater.

Though this was not the Ruler of Domination's intended use, the method was surprisingly effective.

"Mikoto, are you all right?" Arisa Meigo had already changed out of her Performance Outfit and into her usual clothes.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Elisa clasped Mikoto's hands in both of